USA..or is it Mexico? Spain owned most of USA when they started to colonize (thanks to the pope being spanish, or else it would be all portuguese) Spain sold most of the areas to several countries, mainly France and Netherlands, but also the english crown. Somehow the other nation colonies were either bought or conquered by the english crown later on, wich led to the famous Tea Party. Anyhow, that makes me think the country you'r talking about is USA, since it's that big, it belonged to many nations.